Fox tries new lure for iPod crowd — The network and Apple will offer premieres of seven shows for free. — Beginning this week, season premiere episodes of seven Fox Broadcasting programs will be made available for free through Apple's iTunes store, a move that highlights the TV industry's race …

Fox To Offer Free Shows On iTunes — Fox Broadcasting will offer season premier television shows for free on iTunes, beginning next week. — The move is said to be part of a push by Fox to expose iPod users to the new season of shows appearing as part of the new US television ratings season.

Firefox memory usage and memory leak news — Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox's memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately. Hopefully, the result of this effort will be that Firefox 3 uses less memory …

Welcome Erick Schonfeld, My New Co-Editor — I was dying to announce this at TechCrunch40, but the timing just didn't work out. Nevertheless, I am extremely proud to announce that TechCrunch now has a co-editor. Erick Schonfeld, most recently an editor-at-large at Business 2.0 …

Google sees Web search less exposed to mortgage woes — NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage lenders are cutting advertising budgets due to a global credit squeeze, but they are not likely to reduce Internet search marketing anytime soon, executives at search leader Google Inc said on Thursday.

0day: PDF pwns Windows — I am closing the season with the following HIGH Risk vulnerability: Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one.

First U.S. GPL lawsuit filed — For the first time in the U.S., a company and software vendor, Monsoon Multimedia, is being taken to court for a GPL violation. Previously, alleged GPL violations have all been settled by letters from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) or other open-source organizations, pointing out the violation.

Open source impossible to avoid, Gartner says — By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain open source code, analysts predict — You can try to avoid open source, but it's probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software …

A laptop slip cover for the butterfingered — You know those suitcases that are handcuffed to wrists in the movies? This is kind of an updated version of that for laptops. — The "Laptop Wallet" from Vienna-based Working Class Heroes (we don't often get to cite an Austrian company) …

The Forbes 400 — ONE BILLION DOLLARS IS NO LONGER ENOUGH. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. The collective net worth of the nation's mightiest plutocrats rose $290 billion to $1.54 trillion.

Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI exposed: shame on you J. Wong — Ok Meizu, seriously, with your M7 announced a week after the iPod touch and your CEO J.Wong just posting these new interface shots of the M8 to your user forum, how can we or any straight taking rag not call you for what you are: a brazen Chinese Apple cloning machine?

Apple blacklisting hacked iPhones? — I received the following email from a colleague: … So while he eventually got Apple to return the iPhone (after paying the restocking fee, that is), the lesson here is to do a restore of your iPhone and install the factory AT&T SIM before bringing into an Apple Store for service.

Stealthy Startup Mixx Launches Into Private Beta — Mixx is a startup we've been watching for the last few weeks. They've been extremely quiet about their service until very recently. And since they are located well outside of Silicon Valley, in Virginia, they've been able to stay below …